I must admit, Shelley I am certainly not. I am overfond of rhyming couplets. But then I remind myself, this is thoughts.com, not masterpieces.com

Once we believed that the world was flat
Because no-one had looked to see if it was that
There once was an age we burnt witches at stakes
Before Old became New Age, it was all a mistake

The vote and the slave trade, the right to be free
We evolved to a token democracy
If we've learnt a lot from times gone past
What makes us think that we've learnt our last?

If we forgive an action we should forgive a thought
For a bad deed that is done is just the one that was caught
If physics dictates that all matter is one
Then what makes us all think that we are on our own?

One person's transgression is a social reprieve
For the thought manifested where dozens believed
If we know in our hearts that we really can't judge
Then how can we look to a person with grudge?

We have looked to a leader, a law for an age
When we don't understand, we have bowed to a sage
How much longer must we act like we all are unique
When all life interacts and its truths that we seek

Once we believed that athe Lord will return
Is that person just us, if we ever do learn?